The hymn was immediately popular, and was a great comfort to Dora Wordsworth
in her final illness. CE
received and preserved over a thousand letters thanking her for having written it.
Wells, Amos R. A Treasure of Hymns. Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Erik Routley
in...
Literary responses
Charlotte Elliott
Shortly after CE
's death, the New York Evangelist claimed that writing Just as I am was a higher honour than to have worn a crown,
“The Late Charlotte Elliott”. New York Evangelist, Vol.
CE
was a prolific author in the mid nineteenth century of religious lyrics, many of them hymns, which circulated in periodicals, annuals, and collections. Her enduring reputation rests on the hymn Just as I am—without...
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Texts
Routley, Erik. Hymns and Human Life. John Murray, 1959.
